Does anyone have a comprehensive list of outtakes and b sides from these two great albums?

exodus outtakes include:

funky
funky design
superhero
mad
slave 2 the system
it takes three


gold experience outtakes include many more songs but they were shifted
between the "come" and "gold experience" tracklists.

plus there were songs that were on configurations of one or both of
those albums but didn't make the final cut on either. stuff like:

interactive
acknowledge me
days of wild
ripopgodazippa

a song called "dream" is, iirc, one of the very few outtakes from the
gold experience era that have not yet surfaced.

a lot of the tracks recorded during this era ended up on come, gold,
exodus, 1-800-NEW-FUNK and later crystal ball.


[Edited 5/26/09 12:16pm]

Also Exodus out-takes - Love...Thy Will Be Done, Proud Mary

Superhero did eventually get released on the Blankman soundtrack as a New Power Generation song. There was also a CD-Single.

It's not as easy as it might appear to list outtakes from those two albums,
as Prince was working on several album projects simultaneously at that
time and tracks were constantly migrating between albums. Particularly
the 'Come' album, as 'Come' and 'The Gold Experience' were virtually
inseparable until they were released. Most of 'Chaos And Disorder' is
made up of 'outtakes' from these sessions too, as well as several tracks
that surfaced on 'Crystal Ball'.

There exists a really scruffy version of "Get Wild" with what could be Prince's vocals, unfortunately it's mostly unlisteneable due to the sound quality. The track's sort of flanging in and out, so there's even something of a chance that it might have been even destroyed intentionally, or otherwise there has been a major tape fuck-up in the process. There's also an alternate / extended version on "Hallucination Rain" (it has an organ solo and an additional verse). As well as versions of "Acknowledge Me" and "Slave To The System" with vocals by Sonny T. The latter one is very different from the version with Prince's own vocals - it's a bit like speed / trash metal or something, not very good though and doesn't really work that well musically.

Some of the Mayte album outtakes / alternate versions with Prince's backing vocals could be counted in too ("However Much U Want" etc.).

But like stated above, the outtakes from this period are really hard to classify, because the material got spread on various releases over the few years. You may be also interested in looking for a title called "Good Life (Big City Remix)", where most of, or all, the vocals are done by Prince. Unfortunately the verses are replaced with Prince sort of rapping on them instead of singing the great melody from the original song.

Just before the release of Gold Experience, my friend had a bootleg that included most of the songs of the later released version but it included Days of Wild, Acknowledge me and Interactive. I was very upset to find out that Days of Wild and Interactive had been omitted. IMO much better songs than for instance, Pussy Control, 319 and We March. Still, I like the album a lot!

squirrelgrease said:

and earth wind and fire did it on their millinium cd

khemseraph said:

ZiggmanZoo said:

P Control and 319 are the funk heart of The Gold Experience as far as I'm concerned.



So please edit your post.

squirrelgrease said:

Thanks for all the info guys. I had no idea the sessions for the Two or three albums including ,Come were sooo plentiful . Damn that Prince is talented isn't he?

I think 'Interactive' suits Come better, but that's only my opinion. 'Acknowledge Me' should've been on Gold though.

Oh, and didn't the Superhero single come out before Exodus?

NouveauDance said:

Yeah. Blankman - 1994, Exodus - 1995.

novabrkr said:

ah i remember now that "listen to the rhythm of your heart" was on the
gold experience tracklist at one point.

there's an 'alternate' version on bootlegs with a prince rap in the
middle. not sure if that is the version that was on the gold experience
at one stage. i would assume that the version prince wanted to put on
gold would have been one with him on all the lead vox.

ZiggmanZoo said:

Months before the album came out,I was listening to a cassette tape that someone made for me.It was an early version of TGE and had all those songs you mentioned ("Interactive","Days Of Wild","Ripopgodazippa""Acknowlege Me").I too was disappointed when Prince removed those songs from the tracklist and replaced them with less interesting songs like "P Control".

I also think it was a shame that "Hide The Bone" didn't make it onto the album.That is truly the funkiest Prince jam of the 90s.It should have been the opening track on TGE (I never really cared for the silly "P Control").

yeah, it's a shame interactive and days of wild were taken off, even
acknowledge me.

like many others i don't care too much for p control either. i think
it was on there simply for shock factor. like sexy mf. a song with a
raunchy title that would get people talking, yet the lyrics would be
uplifting and not about sex as such.

however, that chorus just pierces my ears, i can't stand it. the rest
of the song is nice enough but when he starts that "aaaaahaaaaa",
i just cringe even when i'm all alone and no one else can hear it.

NouveauDance said:

an opening combo of:

interactive
come (electronic mix)
space

I also thought that Interactive would open the album as the concept of it (at least in part) is being interactive as the ,,interactive" voice between most tracks expresses.